This is a Västerbotten substitute for the US market. Västerbotten is the traditional Swedish celebration cheese, which contains sodium nitrate and is banned from the USA. The Scandic Priest Cheese XO is free of this nitrate and is therefore allowed to enter the USA market.

To many Swedes, Västerbotten is considered the "emperor of cheeses," either because of its heft or its full flavor. Produced in Northern Sweden, Vasterbotten is aged for over 11 months and Scandic Priest cheese is a tad younger and thus is dry, reminiscent of a young Parmigiano Reggiano or an aged Cheddar. Its flavor is rich and full-bodied with a tangy, bittersweet bite. Serve it in the Swedish tradition with some ginger snaps and a cup of hot glogg.

The cheese is wonderful, but the size was too tiny to slice with a cheese slicer...or to nicely cut with a knife, so we could not even put it out on the smörgåsbord! We are very disappointed.
How about offering a...1- 2 lb. size?

By dave from Willoughby Hills, Ohioon Dec 26, 2015

great

bara bra!

By luvcheesefrom Southern Californiaon Jul 03, 2015

Yummy tangy cheese

I buy this cheese a lot. It has a unique taste with a bit of a kick. I like to eat it by the slice, or I put it on bread and broil it for a few minutes to melt it on toast. It's great in the morning (or really anytime) as a cheese toast. I highly recommend.

This is my favorite cheese on the planet. I have loved it since I was a small girl and my great aunts had it in their Swedish delicatessen in Chicago-Edlunds. It is perfect on hardtack. I eat it on days when I want to be reminded how great life is when a person is lucky enough to enjoy such a wonderful delicacy. It is an expensive cheese, but absolutely worth the price.

By Maryfrom CTon Dec 19, 2014

The Best Cheese

Great product. Serve Vasterbotten cheese with thinly sliced Medvurst. We include it in our Swedish Christmas Eve Smorgasbord. yum

By hans3h43@yahoo.comfrom Durham, NCon Jul 22, 2014

Vasterbotten cheese

excellent cheese in excellent condition. Proper packaging necessary for this product, and it was handled perfectly. Thanks, Hans

By Judithfrom Californiaon Mar 16, 2014

Vasterbotten 2 pound cut

As always, the quality of the 2 pounder is excellent and it arrived on time almost to the minute promised.